Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

Younger children buddy with friendly reading partners (ages 10 to 16) for a very special reading time together. Pre-readers enjoy listening to stories while emergent readers may practice their reading skills. Percy, the reading buddy dog, will also be able to join us on some of the days.

Free and open to PPL members. Children under 10 must be accompanied by their adult.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Free and open to PPL youth members ages 5+

LIBRARY PROGRAM

Location: Youth Services

1:00 PM
-
3:00 PM

Mighty Maker Labs

Contact: Youth Services 603-766-1740

Monday Mighty Maker Labs | ages 6 and | Drop in AYC between 1 and 3

Make a cool project you can enjoy using at home.

Free and open to PPL members. Children under 10 need their adult to attend with them.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Challenge yourself to a new mission! Imagine a horrible storm has stranded a city without any roads- your task is to get food, medicine and supplies to the stranded city as quickly as possible! How will you do it?! Rockets to the Rescue!

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Younger children buddy with friendly reading partners (ages 10 to 16) for a very special reading time together. Pre-readers enjoy listening to stories while emergent readers may practice their reading skills. Percy, the reading buddy dog, will also be able to join us on some of the days.

Free and open to PPL members. Children under 10 must be accompanied by their adult.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

OR you are afraid of breaking your family's computer. Or worry something will blow up.

AND you want some very basic skills (turning the computer on and off, using a mouse with ease, understanding what an application, an operating system or other strange terms mean) before you tackle the Internet and eMail.

Join us for a totally simple, completely beginner-level class with NO STRESS. Really. Come have fun.

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

Younger children buddy with friendly reading partners (ages 10 to 16) for a very special reading time together. Pre-readers enjoy listening to stories while emergent readers may practice their reading skills. Percy, the reading buddy dog, will also be able to join us on some of the days.

Free and open to PPL members. Children under 10 must be accompanied by their adult.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#geCreating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

- See more at: http://cityofportsmouth.com/library/computerclasses.htm#ge

Creating and using a free Google email account, including choosing a unique email address and password, composing and sending email messages, attaching files to email messages, reading and replying to incoming email, and storing email addresses in a personal address book

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Prerequisites: Microsoft Word class - or - familiarity with using the keyboard and mouse; highlighting, copying, and pasting text; and using the basic elements of the Windows operating system, familiar with Microsoft Word .

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Escape the heat with summer films at the library! Thursdays June – August. As always, these films are open to the public and FREE. Light refreshments are served!

Nancy Drew | June 25 | 6 PM

Nancy leaves River Heights for La-La-Land...but not to meet that guy on Smallville, as her boyfriend Ned fears. No, she's out to solve one of the greatest mysteries ever: the death of movie star Dehlia Draycott. Rated PG, 95 min.

2015 marks the 85th anniversary of Nancy Drew. During June, the library will host a Nancy Drew exhibit courtesy of local collector Susan Roman, including early and foreign editions of the books, board games, movie lobby cards, and more. Please join us after this film for a discussion with the collector!

Kingsman: The Secret Service | July 9 | 6:30 PM

Based upon the acclaimed comic book, the movie tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. Rated R, 129 min.

McFarland USA | July 23 | 6:30 PM

Inspired by the 1987 true story, the movie follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring legacy as well. Rated PG, 129 min.

Selma | August 13 | 6:30 PM

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1964. Rated PG-13, 128 min.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | August 27 | 6:30 PM

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel. Rated PG, 122 min.

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Sign up for our Summer Reading Programs anytime after June 22 at the Youth Services desk. Programs end on August 22nd:

EVERY HERO HAS A STORY! | ages 5 up | Receive a reading log to keep track of how much time you spend reading. Bring your log to the Hero Headquarters summer reading store. For every hour you read you will earn one coupon to spend in the store. You may do the program for as long as you choose and earn a maximum of 50 coupons.

UNMASK! | For older kids (entering grade 6 and up)| The challenge is to read books — your choice — in 5 different categories. Prizes will be awarded upon completion.

SIDEKICKS | ages 3 to 5 | A summer literacy program just for preschoolers! Sign up and receive an activity log at the Youth Services Desk.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Free and open to PPL youth members ages 5+

LIBRARY PROGRAM

Location: Youth Services

1:00 PM
-
3:00 PM

Mighty Maker Labs

Contact: Youth Services 603-766-1740

Monday Mighty Maker Labs | ages 6 and | Drop in AYC between 1 and 3

Make a cool project you can enjoy using at home.

Free and open to PPL members. Children under 10 need their adult to attend with them.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Nonfiction Book Discussion meets once monthly, on Tuesday at 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

July 21: Choose one of two!

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins

August 18:How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

In this fascinating book, Johnson (Where Good Ideas Come From) presents a “history of ideas and innovation,” focusing on six important technical and scientific innovations that have shaped the modern world but that we often take for granted. The book reveals what Johnson calls “the hummingbird effect,” when “an innovation... in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.” We learn how Gutenberg’s press created a market for spectacles, which, in turn, led to the development of the microscope, the telescope, and the camera; how muckrakers were empowered by flash photography in the Progressive Era; and how the modern advertising business has roots in the germ theory of disease.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Microsoft Powerpoint: Learn how to use design templates for slides and how to add WordArt, clip art and animations. We'll also discuss how to save, view and print a presentation, as well as posting your presentation online for others to view.

Prerequisites: Microsoft Word class - or - familiarity with using the keyboard and mouse; highlighting, copying, and pasting text; and using the basic elements of the Windows operating system.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Free and open to PPL youth members ages 5+

LIBRARY PROGRAM

Location: Youth Services

6:00 PM
-
9:00 PM

Room Booked

Location: Levenson Community Room

7:00 PM
-
8:30 PM

Facebook: IT Summer School

FACEBOOK
Want to keep in touch with friends and family? Interested in knowing about Facebook but don't know how it works? Join us for an introduction to this widely used social networking service where you'll learn how to: set up an account and edit your Facebook profile; select privacy settings; find and add friends; discover and use fun apps; and delete an account.

Prerequisites: Must be comfortable using the keyboard and mouse and have basic knowledge of using the Internet. In order to create a new Facebook account while at the class, you must have a working email address that can be accessed online from the library

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

The Portsmouth Public Library is pleased to continue its popular genealogy workshops throughout the Summer! Presented by the library’s Special Collections staff and members of the Ranger Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), these events are free, open to the public, and appropriate for all levels of interest and experience. We hope you will join us on the third Thursday of each Summer month. Visit facebook.com/pplnh/events to view all upcoming library events!

Do you have French-Canadian, American-Canadian, or Native American-Canadian ancestry? A representative from the American-Canadian Genealogical Society Library and Research Center located in Manchester, NH, will explain the history of the records they hold, how to use the Library which is open to the public, and tips for researching French-Canadian records.

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

LAST DAY! HeroHeadquarters| Summer Reading Store | July 6 to August 22 |

A reading-incentive store. Part of the Summer Reading Program - sign up if you haven't already! One hour of reading earns a coupon to spend in the Hero Headquarters. A great variety of items (mostly donated) make for a fun shopping experience for kids! Donations of kid-friendly items in excellent condition are welcome (no clothing, please).

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

Microsoft Word Basics (parts 1 & 2) : Learn how to create, save and print word processing documents, including using editing shortcuts, formatting lists, checking spelling and grammar and using Word toolbars. The class will also include discussion of how to save and organize files. The class is split into two parts because there is too much to cover in one 90-minute class. Both parts are intended for beginners.

Prerequisites: Computer Basics class -or- familiarity with using the keyboard and mouse; highlighting, copying, and pasting text; and using the basic elements of the Windows operating system

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

This class is useful to anyone who wants to learn more about online tools, but it is especially useful for parents and students in school. Nowadays many school children are required to use Google Drive to receive and submit homework assignments.

Prerequisite: comfort using a computer is expected. Experience using the Internet is helpful.

Microsoft Outlook is a productivity tool that tracks email, calendar, tasks and contacts and is part of the Microsoft Office suite of products. This class covers the basics in the four core functions including how to send, receive, forward and organize email; set up appointments and meetings; track contact information as lists or business cards; and create one-time or repeating tasks.

Escape the heat with summer films at the library! Thursdays June – August. As always, these films are open to the public and FREE. Light refreshments are served!

Nancy Drew | June 25 | 6 PM

Nancy leaves River Heights for La-La-Land...but not to meet that guy on Smallville, as her boyfriend Ned fears. No, she's out to solve one of the greatest mysteries ever: the death of movie star Dehlia Draycott. Rated PG, 95 min.

2015 marks the 85th anniversary of Nancy Drew. During June, the library will host a Nancy Drew exhibit courtesy of local collector Susan Roman, including early and foreign editions of the books, board games, movie lobby cards, and more. Please join us after this film for a discussion with the collector!

Kingsman: The Secret Service | July 9 | 6:30 PM

Based upon the acclaimed comic book, the movie tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. Rated R, 129 min.

McFarland USA | July 23 | 6:30 PM

Inspired by the 1987 true story, the movie follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring legacy as well. Rated PG, 129 min.

Selma | August 13 | 6:30 PM

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1964. Rated PG-13, 128 min.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | August 27 | 6:30 PM

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel. Rated PG, 122 min.

Microsoft Word Basics (parts 1 & 2) : Learn how to create, save and print word processing documents, including using editing shortcuts, formatting lists, checking spelling and grammar and using Word toolbars. The class will also include discussion of how to save and organize files. The class is split into two parts because there is too much to cover in one 90-minute class. Both parts are intended for beginners.

Prerequisites: Computer Basics class -or- familiarity with using the keyboard and mouse; highlighting, copying, and pasting text; and using the basic elements of the Windows operating system

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

Nonfiction Book Discussion meets once monthly, on Tuesday at 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

July 21: Choose one of two!

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins

August 18:How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

In the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, countless women rose above a rigid society to make their marks on the seaport city. In the eighteenth century, Allice Shannon Hight became a successful tavern keeper, outliving two husbands and providing for ten children. Others flourished in more scandalous ventures, like Alta Roberts, otherwise known as the Black Mystery of Portsmouth--always donned in black, she operated a successful brothel at the Roberts House Saloon in the nineteenth century. Even greater achievements would come in later years from the likes of Mary Carey Dondero, who became one of the first women elected mayor in New England. This collection of essays, compiled by author and historian Laura Pope, celebrates the victories--large and small--of Portsmouth's notable women.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

Nonfiction Book Discussion meets once monthly, on Tuesday at 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

July 21: Choose one of two!

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

According to an old Chinese proverb, there's an invisible thread that connects two people who are destined to meet and influence each other's lives. With Tresniowski (The Vendetta), Schroff tells how, as a busy advertising sales executive in New York, she easily passed panhandlers every day. One day, 11-year-old Maurice's plea for spare change caused Schroff to turn around and offer to buy him lunch. Thereafter, Schroff and Maurice met for dinner each week and slowly shared their life stories.

In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins

Those familiar with the film The Blind Side, or Michael Lewis's best-selling book, will likely already know the inspiring story of how the Tuohys took future-NFL star Michael Oher into their home and adopted him. For anyone wondering what more there might be to say about it, the answer is: plenty. In a Heartbeat finds the Tuohys attempting to determine what it was that made them reach out to the homeless African-American boy they saw walking down the street in a t-shirt and shorts on a winter's day.

August 18:How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

In this fascinating book, Johnson (Where Good Ideas Come From) presents a “history of ideas and innovation,” focusing on six important technical and scientific innovations that have shaped the modern world but that we often take for granted. The book reveals what Johnson calls “the hummingbird effect,” when “an innovation... in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.” We learn how Gutenberg’s press created a market for spectacles, which, in turn, led to the development of the microscope, the telescope, and the camera; how muckrakers were empowered by flash photography in the Progressive Era; and how the modern advertising business has roots in the germ theory of disease.

In the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, countless women rose above a rigid society to make their marks on the seaport city. In the eighteenth century, Allice Shannon Hight became a successful tavern keeper, outliving two husbands and providing for ten children. Others flourished in more scandalous ventures, like Alta Roberts, otherwise known as the Black Mystery of Portsmouth--always donned in black, she operated a successful brothel at the Roberts House Saloon in the nineteenth century. Even greater achievements would come in later years from the likes of Mary Carey Dondero, who became one of the first women elected mayor in New England. This collection of essays, compiled by author and historian Laura Pope, celebrates the victories--large and small--of Portsmouth's notable women.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

Nonfiction Book Discussion meets once monthly, on Tuesday at 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

July 21: Choose one of two!

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

According to an old Chinese proverb, there's an invisible thread that connects two people who are destined to meet and influence each other's lives. With Tresniowski (The Vendetta), Schroff tells how, as a busy advertising sales executive in New York, she easily passed panhandlers every day. One day, 11-year-old Maurice's plea for spare change caused Schroff to turn around and offer to buy him lunch. Thereafter, Schroff and Maurice met for dinner each week and slowly shared their life stories.

In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins

Those familiar with the film The Blind Side, or Michael Lewis's best-selling book, will likely already know the inspiring story of how the Tuohys took future-NFL star Michael Oher into their home and adopted him. For anyone wondering what more there might be to say about it, the answer is: plenty. In a Heartbeat finds the Tuohys attempting to determine what it was that made them reach out to the homeless African-American boy they saw walking down the street in a t-shirt and shorts on a winter's day.

August 18:How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

In this fascinating book, Johnson (Where Good Ideas Come From) presents a “history of ideas and innovation,” focusing on six important technical and scientific innovations that have shaped the modern world but that we often take for granted. The book reveals what Johnson calls “the hummingbird effect,” when “an innovation... in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.” We learn how Gutenberg’s press created a market for spectacles, which, in turn, led to the development of the microscope, the telescope, and the camera; how muckrakers were empowered by flash photography in the Progressive Era; and how the modern advertising business has roots in the germ theory of disease.

In the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, countless women rose above a rigid society to make their marks on the seaport city. In the eighteenth century, Allice Shannon Hight became a successful tavern keeper, outliving two husbands and providing for ten children. Others flourished in more scandalous ventures, like Alta Roberts, otherwise known as the Black Mystery of Portsmouth--always donned in black, she operated a successful brothel at the Roberts House Saloon in the nineteenth century. Even greater achievements would come in later years from the likes of Mary Carey Dondero, who became one of the first women elected mayor in New England. This collection of essays, compiled by author and historian Laura Pope, celebrates the victories--large and small--of Portsmouth's notable women.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

This workshop format is open to writers in all genres. We will share our writing and respond to it in a thoughtful, constructive and encouraging way. Additionally, we will discuss short published pieces focusing on craft and technique.

This group is now accepting new members! Please contact the group facilitator, Evgeniya Dame, for more information.

Nonfiction Book Discussion meets once monthly, on Tuesday at 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

July 21: Choose one of two!

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

According to an old Chinese proverb, there's an invisible thread that connects two people who are destined to meet and influence each other's lives. With Tresniowski (The Vendetta), Schroff tells how, as a busy advertising sales executive in New York, she easily passed panhandlers every day. One day, 11-year-old Maurice's plea for spare change caused Schroff to turn around and offer to buy him lunch. Thereafter, Schroff and Maurice met for dinner each week and slowly shared their life stories.

In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins

Those familiar with the film The Blind Side, or Michael Lewis's best-selling book, will likely already know the inspiring story of how the Tuohys took future-NFL star Michael Oher into their home and adopted him. For anyone wondering what more there might be to say about it, the answer is: plenty. In a Heartbeat finds the Tuohys attempting to determine what it was that made them reach out to the homeless African-American boy they saw walking down the street in a t-shirt and shorts on a winter's day.

August 18:How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

In this fascinating book, Johnson (Where Good Ideas Come From) presents a “history of ideas and innovation,” focusing on six important technical and scientific innovations that have shaped the modern world but that we often take for granted. The book reveals what Johnson calls “the hummingbird effect,” when “an innovation... in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.” We learn how Gutenberg’s press created a market for spectacles, which, in turn, led to the development of the microscope, the telescope, and the camera; how muckrakers were empowered by flash photography in the Progressive Era; and how the modern advertising business has roots in the germ theory of disease.

In the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, countless women rose above a rigid society to make their marks on the seaport city. In the eighteenth century, Allice Shannon Hight became a successful tavern keeper, outliving two husbands and providing for ten children. Others flourished in more scandalous ventures, like Alta Roberts, otherwise known as the Black Mystery of Portsmouth--always donned in black, she operated a successful brothel at the Roberts House Saloon in the nineteenth century. Even greater achievements would come in later years from the likes of Mary Carey Dondero, who became one of the first women elected mayor in New England. This collection of essays, compiled by author and historian Laura Pope, celebrates the victories--large and small--of Portsmouth's notable women.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

Interested in writing your memoir? This group will help you to further your writing skills in a congenial and supportive atmosphere. Open to the public. Please call the facilitator, Eliza Hobson, if you are interested in joining. Meetings are held twice each month on Mondays from 10-Noon.

In Stitches Needlework Group offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome!

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

Monthly meeting of the Portsmouth Public Library Fiction Book Club. All welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

Monthly meeting of the Portsmouth Public Library Fiction Book Club. All welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

Monthly meeting of the Portsmouth Public Library Fiction Book Club. All welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

Monthly meeting of the Portsmouth Public Library Fiction Book Club. All welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

Monthly meeting of the Portsmouth Public Library Fiction Book Club. All welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

Monthly meeting of the Portsmouth Public Library Fiction Book Club. All welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

There are two discussion sessions to choose from: 1 PM in the MacLeod Room, and 7 PM in the Hilton Garden Room. All are welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.

September 14: Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz

In her impressive fourth novel, Schwarz (Drowning Ruth) illuminates the difficult lives led by lighthouse keepers in the late 1890s. Well-schooled Trudy (Gertrude) Schroeder abandons both her well-ordered life as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., and her engagement to childhood friend Ernst Dettweiler after she falls for and marries his cousin, Oskar Swann. An unconventional dreamer, Oskar decides to move to California to work in a lighthouse.

October 19: The Girls by Lori Lansens

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled. She raises them in Leaford, Ontario, where, at age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story…

November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Brockmole uses letters to tell a remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars, cutting to the important matters that letter writers struggle to put into just the right words. In 1912, young poet Mrs. Elspeth Dunn, who has never left Scotland’s Isle of Skye because of her fear of boats, receives her first fan letter from David Graham, a college student in Urbana, Ill. They begin a long correspondence.

Monthly meeting of the Portsmouth Public Library Fiction Book Club. All welcome! Whenever possible copies of each title are borrowed from New Hampshire libraries in advance. Books are available for check out with your PPL card.